And then I pre-posted for the next three days, and then I learned about email newsletter software code tracking.

And I was going to do a post based on this:

because I had an uncle whose name was, in fact, Clifford Smith, and who was, in fact, a horse logger. That’s not a guy who cuts down horses to make logs out of them (there’d be hardly any money in that) it’s a guy who cuts down trees to make logs out of them and has his horses drag the logs to the sawmill. Uncle Clifford had about 400 acres and he farmed it for 50 years and it was pretty much solidly forested the whole time, and yet he earned a good living, thanks to the climate and geography and whims of the gods which had blessed his land with an abundance of trees which, when turned into logs, turned into more expensive logs than other trees: trees like Black Walnut.

He’d hitch up his horses (Suffolk Punch, I think; they were quite small for draft horses) when he got an order for a certain kind of wood, and he’d go out and cut down the tree and hitch the horses to it and pull it back and there you go, a month’s worth of groceries paid for.

But because I don’t have time, I’m not going to tell you about Uncle Clifford now.

No, although given my tastes it would only make sense. My Uncle Clifford was a really sweet man, the kind who could literally call wild birds out of the trees to sit on his hands and eat seeds. He was an amazing human being.

Oh and if any raincoaster fans like little nature museums, redwood forests, aquamarine biofacts or pterodactyles, a post at The ARC on the North Coast Natural History Museum that may be closing soon without funding. A few pence or cents might make a difference! 10Q!

And what have I been doing, not to bring this back to Archie’s question?

I’ve been looking for new office space. No internet at home, and my beautiful office space suddenly went POOF on me on Wednesday. It took me till 11pm tonight to secure some new space at the Network Hub, and I’m on the road tomorrow and the next day, so there won’t be a snotload of posts suddenly going up till Thursday, probably.

Go for it. I’m gathering a significant degree of local fame for my talk on “Troll Management and Internet Drama”. Need more material (presumably picking a flamewar with the nation of Albania is not enough).

Go for it. I’m gathering a significant degree of local fame for my talk on “Troll Management and Internet Drama”. Need more material (presumably picking a flamewar with the nation of Albania is not enough).

…. is this what following that Virginian has led those folk to …. just think how many Redwood Giants that Mr W would have ENJOYED choppping down, if only they had been able to grabbe Galifornia in the 1780s

At least your Uncle could spell and only chopped trees down with serious ecological regrette and only to maximize economic growth (with the consequent liberation of world-warming carbon-dioxide into the atmosphere of a large but chilly Country) and to enable his Family to pay their Medi-Care & Gin bills